[AnAmericanMother]

Exactly.

Our rector preached an excellent homily last Sunday (the Feast of the Body and Blood, a/k/a Corpus Christi) on how we need to be more careful with our terminology -- once the words of consecration are pronounced, a miracle occurs and we behold the Body and Blood of our Saviour.

They shouldn't be referred to thereafter as bread and wine . . . because They aren't.

Great homily. He quoted Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Without notes. I gotta say, every once in awhile I like a homily that makes my head ache. It's good for me.

[annalex]

To refer to the consecrated Eucharist as bread is time-honored practice. For one thing, Jesus himself did. St. Thomas Aquinas composed Panis Angelicus.

We have to excuse our Protestant critics when they report on what they see; the problem is, we don’t worship what we see, but rather Whom we know.

[SuziQ]

Yeah, I have a beef with that, too. At the Offertory, it is called the bread and wine, because that it what it is. But the prayers of the Consecration, which are Jesus's own words, clearly state the transformation.

I call the Body and Blood of Jesus, in the Sacrament of Commmunion, the "Host" and the "Cup", when referring to which station I will take, when needed as an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist.